leprosy

Other forms of leprosy

plural

leprosies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leprosy

What does leprosy mean?

leprosy means "chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae".

How many syllables are in leprosy?

leprosy has 3 syllables: lep-ro-sy. The stress falls on "lep". In IPA it is /ˈlɛpɹəsi/.

What is another word for leprosy?

Close synonyms include Hansen's disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leprosy a common word?

leprosy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.